Zipbomb


when you extract the files from a zip file to a folder with other files before checking if the files are stored in a folder in the zip.

this also applies to 7z, tar, and other archive files.
$ tar -xvcf something.tar.gz
file.txt
anotherfile.txt
et.c.
et.c.

noooo my home directory just got zipbombed! i’ll never be able to remove all those files!

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